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09/18/09
09/18/09
And that music was freaking terrible.
09/18/09
Putting english on the cue ball is just one method you might (or might not) use, conditionally.
And we aren't computers... computer analysis might let that thing predict out two or three shots.
It has an advantage that even professional pool players don't have - absolutely linear, repeatable-every-time stroke consistency.
I'd put a machine with that advantage and "in development" spin angles against a trick-shot expert english-specialist anyday.
Programming you can tweak, calculations can predict... people can only practice.
09/18/09
I'm not sure how they are going to tell the human player to spin the cue to get the proper placement for the next shot. The english of the cue ball is not just one of the ways to place the cue, it's the ONLY way. A lack of spin and english is an amount of english: none. And speed, of course. The augment feature, while also boring, I don't think would end up being a help against a decent player. That was my argument. It would be a good general teaching device, I suppose.